Both have significant oil and mineral wealth, which has played an important role in facilitating their independence.
The private sector will make inroads into education, which has become too important a business to leave to hidebound professional educators, bewildered by and uncomfortable with change.
Mobile Share plans give customers more control over how, where and on what device they use data - which has become more important as people use more data devices.
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"We've had an extra week of holiday which has been really important because now we have three races coming up in four weekends, at Mugello, Catalunya and Assen, and they will all be very hard, " said Rossi.
This was a marked scaling back of China's engagement with the forum, which has become an important venue for informal contact between Asia-Pacific military chiefs (as well as some from Europe) since it was launched in 2002.
Which one you choose has important implications for how you plan your business, community and national investments going forward.
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Being recognised as a World Heritage site is a fitting accolade for this bridge which has played such an important part in the lives of Scots for 125 years.
The company has been a featured Google Shopping partner and deploys technology to help merchants maximize sales and Return On Ad Spend (ROAS) with Product Listing Ads (PLAs), which has become an increasingly important channel for merchants.
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He has things to prove in the campaign, of which the most important are that he has national stature, not just state-wide popularity, and that he is more than just the choice of the Republican establishment.
"I think that it's certainly true that, in addition to showing that interaction, their work has helped to define the pathway, which is a generally important contribution which potentially gives multiple targets, " says Sundquist, who has no financial interest in the company.
Lapatinib, it turns out, also inhibits the activity of a protein called the epidermal growth factor receptor, which has been found to be important for stem-cell proliferation.
Next month, the company will let the masses download and test a not-quite-finished version of Windows 8, which Ballmer has called the most important product in company history.
But, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the historic town of Timbuktu - an important symbol which has also been under Islamist control for most of the last year - should also soon be retaken.
This aircraft, which has been called the most important aviation development since the invention of the jet engine, has the ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly horizontally at speeds far in excess of those possible for helicopters.
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Which is why education has become so important in the computer age--why Forbes has run three cover stories on education in as many years.
Today is an important property for NBC which has struggled with its prime time lineup.
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This is another important issue about which Israel has made no specific demands in the current negotiations.
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Such an extension would be important to Russia, which has a major share of the contracts approved under the programme.
Granted, China has plenty of important companies which do not need to worry about their business disappearing to other emerging economies.
This high level of readiness is perhaps more important at NetJets, which has jets in the air at any time, than at some other companies.
This has several important implications, which include the increased costs resulting from this third-party interference and the ambiguous nature of trust protector status and duties in American case law.
But Israel needs the US to deal with Iran's nuclear programme - and that is an issue which Mr Netanyahu himself has said is more important than any other facing Israel.
The new CEO of Apple has brought three important disappointments, which interestingly no one seems to mention.
In any event Ms Rousseff has started an important debate, which should reverberate over the next six months.
"The UK is one of the most important European markets in which Huawei has invested, " said Mr Ren.
The House of Representatives has passed its bill, which does many important things to improve health insurance coverage for people living with HIV.
The Fed did not change its target for the more important federal funds rate, which has remained at 5.25 percent for more than a year.
Tailpipe emissions standards are a much more important issue in California, which has them in place to control pollution from millions of cars, than in North Dakota, which does not have regulations.
One important fact has emerged, which is concrete, and that is that one of the two suspects went to Kenya, and he was held there, detained by the Kenyan security services, on suspicion of trying to join an Islamist militant organization in Somalia.
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